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Queen
Sheer Heart Attack
(EMI, 1974)
A rock giant begins to walk the earth...
Propelled by the international chart success of Killer Queen, Sheer Heart Attack quickly became Queen's access-all-areas pass into the opulent world of rock superstardom. Sitting squarely between the multifaceted fantasises of Queen II and the more refined pop structures of A Night At The Opera, the album is unsurprisingly a gargantuan mix of the two. Stone Cold Crazy, a Freddie Mercury creation left over from his days in Wreckage, had been waiting in the wings for years before the addition of Brian May's super low-slung riff turned it into one of Queen's heaviest cuts (Metallica still cover it today). The scorching scales of Brighton Rock and swelling grooves of Now I'm Here and Tenement Funster are also examples of the band at their most monolithic, each track gorging on May's mountain range of guitar. A nasty bout of Hepatitis would see Queen's axe man holed up in hospital for several of the sessions, but his intricate layers of harmony still gleam. Mercury lightens proceedings with the hymnal Dear Friends and Lily Of The Valley (the latter could have easily made it onto the black side of Queen II) before providing a real curtain-closer in the form of anthem to the heavens In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited. Sheer Hear Attack's spirit lies in its combination of bravura experimentation and pop nous and for that reason it remains one of Queen's best records. For the band, the real party began here...
Ross Bennett
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 02/11/2009
Further Listening
Queen – A Night At The Opera (EMI, 1975)
Queen II – Queen II (EMI, 1974)
Muse – The Resistance (Warner Bros., 2009)
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Truthful critic, ergo, words are not enough for a pure descripion of Sheer Heart Attack, only the beating heart in the chest can level the magnitude and quality of the record. The moment when Queen realized who they really were. It only took three records.
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